NEIU TESL

The keywords of the Oxford 3000™ have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and experienced teachers as the words which should receive priority in vocabulary study because of their importance and usefulness.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) academic is uniquely placed at the interface of theory informed practice and practice informed theory in English Language Teaching (ELT).

Click on the link to take this dialect survery...mostly vocabulary questions, but also some "r" questions. There are around 30 total questions.

You might know about this tool already "Just-the-Word" which, as it says above, is a collocation thesauras concordancer and it creates word clouds. If you haven't seen it, it is certainly worth checking out.

This site offers so much more for the technologically savvy. And for those who have time and want to 'play', may enjoy things like pasting your face onto existing 'cards' on Personalized Flashcards or creating a word collage in Using Word Clouds to Remember Words. Ten sites are provide with instructions to create activities that can augment your curriculum for all students, especially ESL.

This site looks like a real find! You can see a range of topics, and from here, you have various options. I clicked on the text example, which has a recording of the reading. There is some kind of animation that flashes on each word as it is being read. Definitely worth further investigation.

A very inclusive website seemingly geared toward students middle school and above or adults become better readers. The site could benefit native and non-native language learners. In the "reading" portion, One can choose from colorful icons, graphics and words to start - enticing users to click and find out more. Tutorials provide information and practice on every aspect of life.

I know you'll enjoy these.

These are so good! Love it.

The following list of periodicals (mostly journals) is of special interest tostudents and faculty in Applied Linguistics and TESOL.

'Key Concepts in ELT' is a feature of the Journal that aims to assist readers to develop an appreciation of central ideas in ELT, and to approach the content of articles from a perspective informed by current debate on aspects of theory and practice. The list given below is an up-to-date guide to all 'Key Concepts' that have been published in the Journal. The list contains links to the original articles, which are available to download free of charge (PDF file).

VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, is a structured collection of language data, the first computer-readable corpus capturing spoken ELF interactions of this kind.

Not a TESL site, but this seems like a great resource, so I'll postit here. As far as I can tell, this site if free for educators. Following is the description provided by the site: "Using Bookshare® is simple. You can search for a specific title or browse through the library and its special collections, including newspapers and magazines. With a Bookshare membership, you can download accessible titles onto your computer or read them with a variety of reading tools that give you a range of options. To enhance your web experience, you can take advantage of the site's accessibility features."

This site is a treasure trove of NNS of English reading a short text. Each text includes a narrow transcription. There is an amazing range of languages available (and for some more than one speech sample).

From TED-Ed, source of some high quality materials. This 4 1/2 minute video is a very nice history of plural in English. Pretty advanced for students, but good for teachers.

Teflpedia is an award-winning wiki dedicated to everything associated with teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) or second language (TESL). Our objective is to become a major user-generated resource for English teachers from all over the world. We opened our doors on 27th May 2008 and we've been growing ever since. [This looks very interesting...and I'm already a big fan of wikis.]

I love the idea of this. Looking forward to checking it out.

Wow, what an awesome resource! Can't wait to use it!

"Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 45,000 interviews with nearly 90,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on our Listen page and on public radio"

It's a great short visual representation....

From Pearson ELT...Jeremy Harmer is giving a lecture series on TESL pedagogy...this link gives you info about the 4th lecture which is on June 19th.  It looks like you can access the first 3 lectures too, but you'll have to register on the Pearson ELT site.  Links to other useful things too...

Fantastic video with audio examples of some phonetically complex languages!

This is a pretty amazing graphic! It's so big I don't know how to print it out or even show it all at once, but very worth having! I discovered this through Larry Ferlazzo's blog.

Free journal "Humanising Language Teaching" has some interesting articles going back 15 years.

"How to pronounce foreign languages Even if you can't master a native accent, the key is to be clear and comprehensible. Anne Merritt offers five top tips. "